(meteorobs) Dirk Ross- Right Place & Time

[Barrett]

It seems that while everyone else was looking at Sutters Mill, Dirk Ross
snuck off to Brazil on a meteorite related project and was in the right
place at the right time! What first appeared to be space junk (that was
later ruled out) was actually a 40 second meteor streaking overhead and
caught on several cameras. Personally, I think that Dirk must have some how
arranged this event to showcase the fact that part of his Brazil mission was
to install three AllSky cameras in Brazil.
Dirk and a team are working on the trajectory for it right now and will soon
start the hunt for it.
Dirk said- "too bad the cameras 3 were not installed as they were supposed
to have been....brasilian customs held up the shipment due to taxes of 100%,
so all were sent back to the us" 
The meteor passed over head in the city of  Campos dos Goytacazes,RJ State,
Brasilhile,-shortly after  Dirk making a presentation of a 3 hour workshop
on meteors and meteorites, focused on met hunting. The event occurred on
event was 20APR2012 at about 11:20 pm local Rio Time.

Right now, spotty internet connections are making it hard to Dirk to
communicate and update his website, but he has managed to get some of the
video and news reports to it @
http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com.br/2012/04/breaking-news-campos-do
s-goytacazes.html

>From the videos, it appears that it was a genuine, very slow and
earth-grazing Peekskill-like meteor entering under a shallow angle.
Potentially a dropper, as fragmentation is evident on one of the video's.
This event does NOT coincide with the re-entry of some space junk from a
Centaur rocket, as some had originally thought.

We should all wish Dirk good luck on finding a LOT of it!


Barrett & Roxanne Flowers
website- www.FallenStarHunters.com <www.FallenStarHunters.com%20>
METEORITE RECOVERY TEAM 
SLC, UT
Barrett at FallenStarHunters.com



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